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Describe the impact of revolution of liberals in 1848 in europe (5m) (5 points)

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  1. A revolution led by educated middle class started throughout Europe around 1848 along with men and women to put forth their demands of constitutionalism with nation unification.
  2. On May 1848, 831 elected representatives marched in a procession to  take their places in Frankfurt Parliament in Germany.
  3. The parliament was dominated by middle class who resisted demands of workers thereby leading to losing their support.
  4. Though conservative forces were able to suppress liberal movements in 1848, the old order could not be restored.
  5. Hence, after 1848, autocratic monarchies of Central and Eastern Europe began to introduce changes that already took place in Europe before 1815, i.e., serfdom and bonded labour were abolished and once again, autonomy was being restored in many European countries.
  6. Democracy moved away from Europe after 1848.
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The 1848 revolution of the liberals refers to the various national movements pioneered by educated middle classes alongside the revolts of the poor, unemployed and starving peasants and workers in Europe. While in countries like France, food shortages and widespread unemployment during 1848 led to popular uprisings, in other parts of Europe (such as Germany, Italy, Poland, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire), men and women of the liberal middle classes came together to voice their demands for the creation of nation-states based on parliamentary principles. The political, social and economic ideas supported by the liberals were:

?Politically, they demanded constitutionalism with national unification, nation-state with a written constitution and parliamentary administration.

?Socially, they wanted to rid society of its class-based partialities and birthrights. Serfdom and bonded labor had to be abolished.

?Economically they demanded freedom of markets and right to property. The abolition of state-imposed restrictions on the movements of goods and capital.
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